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Last week, these little groups of nobodies assembled and elected a President. They were not all nobodies, however. One of the groups that met in a place called Albany, in New York, was presided over by Elihu Root, who has held many more important posts-those of Secretary of State and Secretary of War, for example, and Ambassador Extraordinary at the head of the special diplomatic mission to Russia...
...Elihu Root (American...
...Directors, beside Mr. Mackay, are: Frederic A. Juilliard, Marshall Field, Otto H. Kahn, Charles Triller, Alvin W. Krech, Arthur Judson, Nicholas Murray Butler, Scipione Guidi, Mrs. E. H. Harriman, Thomas L. Leeming, L. E. Manoly, Frank L. Polk, D. Edward Porter, Walter W. Price, Elihu Root, Charles H. Sabin, Nelson S. Spencer, Maurice Van Praag. Mrs. Vincent Astor is the Chairman of the Executive Committee on the Auxiliary Board...
Like Mr. Depew, Elihu Root has also missed his opportunity for the highest office in the land. In 1899, he was firm in his refusal to run for Vice President on the ticket with Mc-Kinley, and acceptance would have made him President, after McKinley's assassination, instead of Roosevelt. In 1916, he was one of the candidates before the Republican Convention, running, in the first two ballots, second only to Hughes whom he had helped to make. But, like Mr. Depew, he soon withdrew his name in the interest of harmony...
...Blashfield, Thomas Hastings, Brander Matthews, George E. Woodberry, George W. Chadwick, Lockwood De Forest, William R. Mead, Bliss Perry, A. Lawrence Lowell, Nicholas M. Butler, Paul W. Bartlett, Owen Wister, Herbert Adams, Augustus Thomas, Timothy Cole, Cass Gilbert, Robert Grant, Frederick MacMonnies, William GilIett, Paul E. More, Gari Melchers, Elihu Vedder, Brand Whitlock, Hamlin Garland, Paul Shorey, Charles A. Platt, Archer M. Huntington, Childe Hassam, David J. Hill, Lorado Taft, Booth Tarkington, Charles D. Gibson, Joseph Pennell, Stuart Sherman, John C. Van Dyke, George deF. Brush, Albert G. Beveridge, Royal Cortissoz, Henry K. Hadley, Charles D. Hazen. Willard L. Metcalf...